Hi

Can someone confirm whether or not Sent Mail is backed up and restored? I am in the middle of transferring from a Gmail account to an Apps account, but the Sent Items seem to be missing.

It looks like they are restored, but not into the Sent Items (I've checked a couple of emails). Is there any reason for this?

Another issue:

I've been splitting my emails up into years (2006, 2007, etc). At the end of each restore, I get an error:

Restoring labels, 100.0%
Network error occured, disconnected
Trying to reconnect (1)
Reconnected!

...and this goes on until I click on Stop.

So, it seems to have completed the labels OK, but is this error a bug? Does anyone else get this?

I can confirm that sent items downloaded via myoldemail@gmail.com do not appear in the sent items folder when uploaded as mynewemail@mydomain.com.

I suspect the sent items requires the "from" address to match the the new email, but in fact matches the old "from" address.

The good news is that the items ARE uploaded and are part of "all" mail.

It is probably possible to write a little script that replaces all occurences of "myoldemail@gmail.com" with "mynewemail@mydomain.com" which may get them into the correct place. (It would also be possible to modify gmail-backup code to perform this modification on-the-fly as an option.)

However, rather than change history, I'm instead going to do the following:

In my old gmail, before running gmail-backup, I'm creating a "migrated" label and assigning it to EVERY message. (This is something that the google "pro" migration does.)
Secondly, I'm going to create a "Prior Sent Items" label and assign it to all my sent items.
They won't be in the correct place, but will be easily searchable by label.

This is still a problem.
If I create a "Prior Sent Items", it applies to CONVERSATIONS, not the messages themselves.
Filtering the messages to switch from old email address to new email address makes gmail look a bit cleaner, but Sent Mail is still not put in sent mail.

No joy in restoring sent mail.

Hello, just finished backuping of my gmail account for 2007 year. Well done, and created labels.txt. But there are only messages with INBOX label... Why there is no message with SENT label???

hooke

I had the same problem reported in this thread. Under Settings > Accounts, I added my old address (the source account) as a "Send mail as:" and magically all of the sent mail was restored to the appropriate location.